There’s a new update to the ISO 19770-1 international standard for Software Asset Management (SAM). The launch has been fairly low profile, but that’s probably a reflection on the SAM community and the fact that the standard is developed by volunteers (unpaid, in their own time) who are ITAM professionals rather than marketing experts.

Snow has been involved with the standard since work began on it in 2001 (represented by CEO, Axel Kling), and continues to be with both Axel and more recently myself (I joined Working Group 21 (WG21), the group responsible for all the standards in the ISO 19770 portfolio, late last year just prior to the publication of the 2017 edition of the standard) as part of the group of volunteers. We encourage the SAM community to support this work by leveraging the material and engaging with the group where appropriate.

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